Programming Language Design

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Programming Language Design.

• Stropping (syntax) — A programming-language notation technique marking character sequences so keywords or special identifiers occupy a namespace distinct from ordinary names.
• Turing tarpit — A computationally universal language or interface whose lack of useful abstractions makes ordinary tasks disproportionately difficult to express and maintain.
• Uniform function call syntax — Allow an eligible free-function call f(x, y, ...) to be written in receiver form x.f(y, ...), preserving the resolved callable while exposing a uniform chainable surface syntax.